@inproceedings{fc8587bd2d0d448998e26cb172c82785,
title = "Simulation of Configurable Resource Allocation for Cloud-Based Business Processes",
abstract = "Cloud computing has enabled provisioning of scalable and virtualized resources to organizations in an ubiquitous and on-demand manner. Likewise, configurable process modeling has enabled organizations to reuse their existing knowledge by sharing a reference process model between different tenants that can be customized according to specific needs. Nevertheless, there are some limitations in this context, (i) it is not cost-effective to make use of real cloud infrastructure such as, Amazon EC2 for experimenting and analyzing the deployment of the best process variant, (ii) frequent changes in the configurations during experimentation using a real cloud setup involves various manual adjustments which is a time-consuming task, (iii) certain conditions prevailing in the internet-based cloud environments are beyond the control of the practitioners involved in such analysis. Thus, making use of simulation environments is one of the good alternative for testing and analyzing the best process variants with optimal resource allocation. Building upon our previous work, we propose in this paper, (i) a unified description model that allows the representation of process activities along with their possible cloud resource allocation alternatives, (ii) a methodology for simulating a configurable process along with its cloud resource consumption, and (iii) an extension of CloudSim framework in order to realize the simulation of the configurable resource allocation for the cloud-based business processes.",
keywords = "Business Process, Cloud, Configurable, Resource Allocation, Simulation",
author = "Mehdi Ahmed-Nacer and K. Kunal and Mohamed Sellami and Walid Gaaloul",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.; 14th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2017 ; Conference date: 25-06-2017 Through 30-06-2017",
year = "2017",
month = sep,
day = "12",
doi = "10.1109/SCC.2017.46",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2017",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "305--313",
editor = "Xiaoqing Liu and Umesh Bellur",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2017",
}